*** DISCLAIMER ***
I work on projects that may brick your device. Don't sue me, hate me or try and kill my dog if that happens. I will feel bad the community will feel bad and hopefully we'll find a way to get you going again. But, the very nature of my projects involves a certain amount of risk taken by YOU. And by using the projects that I work on, you've accepted that fact.

THERE IS AN UNKNOWN ISSUE WHERE IF YOU HAVE ENCRYPTION ENABLED AND INSTALL SS IT BOOTLOOPS. IF YOU FIT THIS DESCRIPTION PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM SAFESTRAP FOR NOW.

Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Safestrap

CURRENT PROJECT STATUS:BETA

PLEASE FIND A WAY TO THANK XDA USER @Beastmode WHO DID THE INITIAL WORK ON THE SAFESTRAP PORT FOR THE NOTE 2. HE MADE MY JOB QUITE A BIT EASIER.

WHAT IS SAFESTRAP?

Safestrap is a Bootstrap / Recovery for locked bootloader phones. The goal is to avoid touching your primary system (I'll call this "stock" system) and only flash or make large changes to another place on your phone that Safestrap treats as a "2nd system" (in this case, it's a series of virtual ROM slots located on the internal emmc area: "/sdcard"). Once installed, you will see a "Splashscreen" giving you the option to hit "menu" to enter recovery. The recovery portion of Safestrap is now based on TWRP 2.6.3.x (a touch based recovery) and you can perform .zip installs, backups and restores here. The additional features I've added to TWRP are mostly located under the "Boot Options" menu:

Here you can create virtual ROM-slots for flashing ROMs. These ROM-slots allow for different sizes of /data and /cache partitions. The defaults *SHOULD* be good enough for flashing the stock-based ROMs but the more apps you want the larger you should make /data.

NOTE: The bigger you make these partition the less room you will have to make other ROM-slots.

You can activate a new ROM-slot by choosing the slot you wish to make active and then selecting the "Activate" button. Once active, you will see the "rom-slot#" up in the top of the screen shown in green. If you make the "stock" ROM active, then you can see it in the top shown in red.

Once a ROM-slot is active, all actions you would normally perform using TWRP are directed to that ROM-slot. For example, "Install" to flash a .zip, backup and restore.

During each reboot a splashscreen will be displayed showing whether the device is running a rom-slot or on the "Stock ROM".
Press the button shown on the screen to either enter "RECOVERY" or "CONTINUE" booting (or the hard button underneath each option).

HOW DO I UPGRADE SAFESTRAP?

Push the APK up to your sdcard.

Boot back into the "stock" rom-slot.

Go into your old Safestrap app and use the "Uninstall Recovery" button

THEN, open a "file explorer" of some sort (even TW "My Files" will work)

Browse to where you pushed the APK

Click on it and install like normal

Once installed, open the APK

Grant SU access

Use the "Install Recovery" button

All set, now you can reboot and re-activate whatever rom-slot you were using

KNOWN ISSUES:

BETA SOFTWARE! PLEASE MAKE A BACKUP OF ANYTHING IMPORTANT ON THE DEVICE AND PUT IT SOMEWHERE SAFE (OFF THE DEVICE FOR LATER USE).

ROM-slots are still being debugged for use. This is tricky as I don't have a device and am working with testers. Be patient. **NOTE: I'm not asking for a device. Don't send me a device! This port will be fully functional. I just need to debug some boot-up issues.

DOWNLOADS:CONFIRM THAT YOU ARE USING A SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 2 RUNNING MJ9

As of version 3.7x, Safestrap Recovery is now based on TWRP 2.7.0.x. For more on TWRP you can visit their website: http://www.teamw.in/

WARNING: Safestrap is heavily modified to be "Safe" for your device. Do not download TWRP from their website and expect it to work the same way. Also TWRP does not support Safestrap, tho some issues that may come up will be TWRP dependant, please try and contact myself or look on the forums for your device for answers before hunting down TWRP people. They won't be able to help w/ Safestrap specific questions.

For the purposes of direct user testing I've established a channel on freenode.net IRC: #safestrap
I'm in the channel mostly all the time, but may not be active for discussion.

Special Thanks To
DeesTroy & TeamWin for all their hard work making TWRP such a fantastic recovery

makes me want to buy an upgraded to MJ9 note 2 to test this for myself, 'course I'm not updating my unlocked note 2 to try this out! I'd try it on my unlocked, but I don't want to chase have to chase Hash down with a rifle (just kidding of course!) lol

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